We welcome people with lived experience or expertise in housing to contact us to inform our advocacy on the Queensland Housing Strategy Action Plan 2020-2022.
In February the Hon. Mick de Brenni MP, Minister for Housing and Public Works, Minister for Digital Technology and Minister for Sport convened the first meeting for 2019 of the Ministerial Housing Council. COTA Queensland is establishing a Policy Panel to inform our advocacy.
COTA Queensland is supporting The Older Persons Homelessness Prevention Project which aims to improve awareness and take action on the increasing prevalence of housing problems facing older people on lower incomes and assets in Australia who have not attained secure and affordable housing.
The Livable Housing Design Survey found that 70% of participants supported regulation. Over 50% of the participants called for an education and awareness strategy to accompany regulation so that everyone understood its purpose and relevance
COTA Queensland believes that the Queensland Government must take more concerted action to assist those seniors who for a variety of reasons find themselves displaced from appropriate housing and made homeless.